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What do you do when Kubernetes Cluster Autoscaler supports the scaling logic you need, but not your cloud provider? In his follow-up to last week's Cloud Native Computing Switzerland Meetup, Marco De Luca walks through how to teach Cluster Autoscaler to speak cloudscale.ch - without forking it or waiting for an upstream provider. The answer: externalgrpc. Cluster Autoscaler stays the brain (scheduling simulation, node group selection, scale-down logic). A separate gRPC service becomes the hands (creating VMs, tagging, deleting, mapping nodes back to cloud resources). Marco covers: 🔹 How the autoscaler's 10-second reconciliation loop actually works 🔹 Why TemplateNodeInfo is the most underrated provider method 🔹 The six RPCs that matter, and which ones you can stub 🔹 Real gotchas: lock ordering, why the CCM matters, and the "everything wired up but nothing scales" bug A useful read for anyone running Kubernetes on a sovereign or smaller cloud platform where in-tree providers aren't an option. 👉 https://buff.ly/VCNK2IW cloudscale.ch AG #Kubernetes #CloudNative #externalgrpc #DigitalSovereignty #DevOps #cloudscale

Recap: Cloud Native Computing Switzerland Meetup - May 2026 🇨🇭 Yesterday's CNC Switzerland Meetup at the VSHNtower in Zürich brought together the Swiss cloud-native community for four solid technical talks: 🔹 Luka Rumora on Kuberik - Kubernetes-native CD that goes beyond "kubectl apply" 🔹 Hadi Cherkaoui (CM Informatik AG) on building a Minecraft panel in Rust with kube-rs - no CRD, no controller, on purpose 🔹 Vadim Bauer (8gears, CNCF Harbor maintainer) on surviving open-source in the age of vibe coding 🔹 Marco De Luca (VSHN) on plugging any cloud into the Cluster Autoscaler via externalgrpc The full recap is on our blog 👇 https://buff.ly/0ZX2tfj Recordings will follow on https://vshn.tv #CloudNative #Meetup #CNC #CNCMeetup #Kubernetes #DevOps #OpenSource #Switzerland

🇨🇭 We are happy to be back as a Matterhorn sponsor of Swiss Software Festival 2026 - and this year, we are not only sponsoring, but also on stage. The festival takes place on June 24, 2026 at uptownBasel in Arlesheim, bringing together 600+ peers, two plenary sessions, and 75+ speakers across seven thematic tracks and two special tracks. 🎤 In Plenary Session 1, "The future of software development," Aarno Aukia gives a keynote titled "Digital Neutrality: Switzerland's Engineering Advantage in the AI Era" - exploring what it means for Switzerland to build software autonomously in a world increasingly shaped by AI. 🛠 We are also Track Chair of Tech Track 2, "Platform Engineering & Software Architecture," where Tobias Brunner will speak on "From platforms to ecosystems - why software innovation is a team sport." Why does this matter to us? Because in times of geopolitical uncertainty, more and more Swiss organizations are looking for autonomy-first, Swiss-made solutions that support digital sovereignty. That is exactly the conversation we want to help shape - with our customers, our partners, and the wider community. Looking forward to good conversations, strong talks, and meeting many of you in person. 👉 Tickets and program: https://buff.ly/EnHLjrC #SwissSoftwareFestival #DigitalSovereignty #PlatformEngineering #CloudNative

Digital sovereignty is becoming one of the most important topics in the Cloud Native ecosystem - and we are excited that Servala is sponsoring the Sovereignty Track at Cloud Native Zürich 2026 🇨🇭 Together with the organizers, we helped shape a full track around sovereign cloud infrastructure, open ecosystems, platform engineering, and practical approaches to digital sovereignty. The track includes talks, discussions, and a panel featuring perspectives from across the ecosystem - from cloud providers and software vendors to MSPs, implementation partners, and civil society. We are also happy to contribute directly with talks and moderation throughout the track. 👉 Read more about the Sovereignty Track: https://buff.ly/RXrnkdT 👉 Join Cloud Native Zürich with 20% off using code: 🎟️ VSHN-20 Cloud Native Zurich #DigitalSovereignty #CloudNative #Kubernetes #OpenSource #PlatformEngineering #Servala #CloudNativeZurich #CNZ2026

🚨 We’re still looking for one more speaker for the upcoming Cloud Native Computing Meetup at the VSHNtower in Zürich on May 21st! Got an interesting cloud native, Kubernetes, platform engineering, observability, AI/ML or open source topic to share? We'd love to hear from you 👋 No vendor pitches - real-world technical talks only. 👉 Event details: https://buff.ly/yLLJdIP 👉 Submit your talk: cnc-meetup.ch Please share 🙌 #CloudNative #Kubernetes #PlatformEngineering #OpenSource #DevOps #CNCF #Zurich #Switzerland

DevOpsDays Zurich 2026 is over. It once again reminded us why this is one of the best community events in tech. ❤️ Great talks, honest discussions, fun ignite talks with auto-slides, open spaces, countless conversations at our booth, and lots of familiar and new faces from the Swiss devops and cloud native community. For us at VSHN, this event is especially meaningful: we have been part of DevOpsDays Zurich since the very first edition in 2016. Hard to believe that next year already marks the 10th anniversary. 🎉 We wrote a small recap covering the event, the atmosphere, our highlights, Aarno Aukia’s sponsor talk, and the LEGO giveaway winners 👀 Read the recap here: https://buff.ly/nb1cuE8 #DevOpsDays #DevOpsDaysZH #dodzh #CloudNative #Kubernetes #PlatformEngineering #OpenSource #DevOps #Switzerland

DevOpsDays Zürich 2026 - over and out 🚀 Great talks, awesome hallway chats, and really fun ignite talks with the new auto-slides format. Huge thanks to everyone involved 🙌 Proud that VSHN has been part of it since the very first edition in 2016. See you for the 10th anniversary next year 🎉 #DevOpsDays #DevOps #CloudNative #Kubernetes #OpenSource #dodzh

Full house at #DevOpsDays Zurich day 2 in Winterthur! Come to our booth and say hello! 👋 #dodzh

DevOpsDays Zurich kicks off tomorrow 🚀 Excited to see so many familiar faces, meet new ones, and dive into everything DevOps, open source, platform engineering, and cloud native. See you there 👋 And come visit us at our booth! #DevOpsDays #Zurich #CloudNative #OpenSource #PlatformEngineering

🎟️🚨 DevOpsDays Zurich is next week in Winterthur - and we've got a few last tickets to give away! We're raffling: - 1x 2-day pass (May 6-7) - 1x 1-day pass (May 7) Want in? Just drop a comment below and tell us which ticket you'd like. We'll draw the winners today at 17:00 CET. More info: https://www.devopsdays.ch/ Good luck! 🍀 #DevOpsDays #DevOpsDaysZurich #DevOps #CloudNative #Kubernetes #PlatformEngineering #SRE #Zurich #Winterthur #TechEvents #Giveaway #TicketRaffle